Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.